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ἀλαζονεύομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλαζονεύομαι

Structure: ἀλαζονεύ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: a)lazw/n

Sense

  1. to make false pretensions

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὅτι οὐκ ἐξ ἐπιβουλῆσ φῂσ τὸν Ἀχιλλέα ψεύδεσθαι, ὃσ ἦν οὕτω γόησ καὶ ἐπίβουλοσ πρὸσ τῇ ἀλαζονείᾳ, ὡσ πεποίηκεν Ὅμηροσ, ὥστε καὶ τοῦ Ὀδυσσέωσ τοσοῦτον φαίνεται φρονεῖν πλέον πρὸσ τὸ ῥᾳδίωσ λανθάνειν αὐτὸν ἀλαζονευόμενοσ, ὥστε ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ αὐτὸσ ἑαυτῷ ἐτόλμα ἐναντία λέγειν καὶ ἐλάνθανεν τὸν Ὀδυσσέα· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 49:3)
  • οὐκ αἰσχύνῃ δὲ ἀλαζονευόμενοσ, ἃ παραχρῆμα ἐξελέγχῃ ψευδόμενοσ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 2185)
  • καὶ τοῦτο εἶπον οὐκ ἀλαζονευόμενοσ ἄλλωσ, αὑ̓τοὶ γὰρ ἴστε οὐδεπώποτε ὑπὲρ τούτων μνησθέντα με ἐν τοσούτοισ λόγοισ, οὓσ εἴρηκα ἐν ὑμῖν̓ ἀλλ̓ ἀμυνόμενοσ τοὺσ ἐμοὶ καὶ ὑμῖν βασκαίνοντασ, ἵνα, ἐὰν μὲν δυνατὸν ᾖ, διαρραγῶσιν, ὃ τῇ πόλει πάσῃ βέλτιστόν ἐστιν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 2:1)
  • " αὐχοῦντόσ τινοσ ἐπὶ τῷ κολυμβᾶν, "οὐκ αἰσχύνῃ," εἶπεν, "ἐπὶ δελφῖνοσ ἔργοισ ἀλαζονευόμενοσ; (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. h'. ARISTIPPOS 9:4)

Synonyms

  1. to make false pretensions

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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